Ethereum Watch

On this week’s episode, Mike Finch and I interview Jimmy Zhong of the IOS Foundation, building the Internet of Services (IOST). Advertisements We discuss the tech behind IOST, how Proof of Believability and Servi — a non-tradable token that IOST nodes accumulate by contributing to the network — makes the network more fair and decentralized, and what initiatives IOST […]

Taking a closer look As Marcus was joining Coinbase’s board back in December 2017, Coinbase’s CEO Brian Armstrong said Marcus would apply his expertise in the “payments and mobile space” to guide Coinbase in its overall mission. Advertisements After just five months, Marcus became Facebook’s lead into new blockchain research and strategic partnerships. This shook up […]

Binance Demos DEX, Everipedia MainNet Launches, Overstock.com & tZero Raise $134 Million + $400 Million Advertisements Everipedia, EOS-Based Competitor to Wikipedia, Launches MainNet Hoping to fix the issues Wikipedia experiences and become a more diverse, uncensorable online encyclopedia, Everipedia has been one of the most anticipated of the EOS dapps. Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger is on the […]

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has announced it is creating what it claims is the first bond entirely transferred and managed on the blockchain. Advertisements The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has announced that it has partnered with the World Bank to issue a bond on a blockchain platform. According to the announcement, the bond, […]

Giveth and Aragon are joining to create a decentralized organization structure by fusing transparent, independent governance and altruistic purpose. Advertisements On August 9, Aragon One and Giveth, two blockchain enterprises aiming to revolutionize organizational structure through blockchain technology, announced a joint project to develop the Aragon stack. Aragon is a project aiming to decentralize and […]

The Fellowship of Ethereum Magicians plans to hold its Council of Prague prior to the global Ethereum developer conference. Advertisements According to an August 10 announcement from the Fellowship of Ethereum Magicians, a self-organized gaggle of Ethereum developers, the group will meet up for its Council of Prague in the days leading up to the […]

After Medium began censoring certain cryptocurrency posts, decentralization advocate Aragon decided to move to a new platform. Will others follow? Advertisements You probably didn’t notice. Sometime between March and June, Medium, a publishing platform ubiquitous in the blockchain sphere, updated a page called “Cryptocurrencies on Medium.” (ETHNews reached out to Medium for this article but […]